{"id":15153,"date":"2015-05-04T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15153"},"modified":"2015-05-04T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:44:17","slug":"tesla-battery-economics-on-the-path-to-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15153","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Battery Economics: On the Path to Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At the utility scale, it may actually be even more disruptive. Tesla appears to be selling the utility scale models at &lt; $250 \/ kwh. Multiple utility studies suggest that such a price should <a href=\"http:\/\/rameznaam.com\/2015\/04\/14\/energy-storage-about-to-get-big-and-cheap\/#Grid\" target=\"_blank\">replace natural gas peakers and drive gigantic grid-level deployments<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rameznaam.com\/2015\/04\/30\/tesla-powerwall-battery-economics-almost-there\/\">Tesla Battery Economics: On the Path to Disruption | Ramez Naam<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tentative Conclusion:\u00a0<\/strong>The battery is right on the verge of being cost effective to buy across most of the US for day\/night arbitrage. And it\u2019s even more valuable if outages come at a high economic cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the utility scale, it may actually be even more disruptive. Tesla appears to be selling the utility scale models at &lt; $250 \/ kwh. Multiple utility studies suggest that such a price should replace natural gas peakers and drive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[790,589,1209,283],"class_list":["post-15153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-batteries","tag-economics","tag-solar-power","tag-tech-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15154,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153\/revisions\/15154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}